Michael Ableman
AUTHOR

Michael Ableman

Arts & Entertainment | Business & Careers
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Michael Ableman, the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms, is one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. He has created high-profile urban farms in Watts, California; Goleta, California; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Ableman has also worked on and advised dozens of similar projects throughout North America and the Caribbean, and he is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture. Alongside Street Farm, Michael is the author and photographer of From the Good Earth; A celebration of growing food around the world (Abrams, 1993), On Good Land: The autobiography of an urban farm (Chronicle Books, 1998), and Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it (Chronicle Books 2005). He is the subject of the award-winning PBS film Beyond Organic narrated by Meryl Streep. Ableman lives and farms at the 120-acre Foxglove Farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.
Read more Read less
Not an Audible member?
From £7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Start your free 30-day trial

Best Sellers

Product list
  • Street Farm cover art

    • Street Farm

    • Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
    • By: Michael Ableman
    • Narrated by: Michael Canaan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    Regular price: £14.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £14.99 or 1 Credit

    Try for £0.00
  • Farm the City cover art

    Regular price: £11.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £11.99 or 1 Credit

    Try for £0.00

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central